Audrey Bragg

Literacy consultant...mom to two great sons...wife to an amazing man...always learning!

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I’d love the opportunity to collaborate with you and your team to strengthen reading and writing instruction on your campus. By working together, we can support teachers with planning, model lessons, and feedback that lead to confident instruction and stronger student outcomes.

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Thank you, Teachers!

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Teachers have always been the cornerstone of effective literacy instruction. Equipping them with the “how” is essential for student success—and that is my mission.

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I’m thrilled to support these dedicated teachers and coach in enhancing their literacy practices. My goal is to make training both engaging and relevant, ensuring that it directly applies to their work. If you’d like assistance in helping your teams, don’t hesitate to reach out!

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Warmest Holiday Wishes To You! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Happy Reading!

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@TheJMcG @mckinneyisd Congrats!

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Happy Reading! I’m so excited about getting started next month supporting teachers. Building a reading life opens the door to a world of knowledge.

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Teachers grow with encouraging feedback and helpful tips as they refine and polish their practice. As I continue to work in schools, I am reminded that teachers need lifting up more than ever.

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Happy Holidays!

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Small group reading instruction has many moving parts, relying on teacher moves and knowing the students as readers and writers. Demonstrating reading, writing, and word work lessons for schools makes a difference in teachers’ practice. If I can do it with your kids, so can you!

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One of the most helpful options for teachers is when they can see it in action with their own students. Demonstration lessons as the teachers observe or join in with a debrief is a powerful way to learn. I have been blessed in training teachers for 26 years in this way.

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Here’s to the best year yet!

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@MistiGreenPena Congrats!

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Collaborating with these AISD schools as we learn more about Phonological Awareness and Sound Spelling Walls led to great questions, deep thinking, and problem solving. I love my job! @ElementaryDiane @ShortElem @Julieta5togrado @KRlSTY @6fdaa104f7f9462 @Seeds4Teaching

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Interesting! Thanks for sharing. @spencerideas

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As someone who taught reading intervention at middle school in a school that focused on a phonics-centric Science of Reading approach, here are a few concerns I see with this new trend and how it might be applied to older students:

1. I worry that we will focus so much on skill development that we fail to see the need for reading for pleasure in order to develop reading endurance. At the middle school level, one of the key elements in helping students increase their reading scores was the role of endurance.

2. An emphasis on phonics, blending, and phonemic awareness at the middle school level sometimes fails to recognize the role of critical thinking, vocabulary, and prior knowledge in reading comprehension. I’ve seen highly fluent readers fail reading tests for these reasons.

3. The one-size-fits-all systematic approach that rejects balance might work at younger levels but the reasons a 13 year old is behind will often be far more varied.

4. I’m really worried that some of the people screaming the loudest about research haven’t read the research in-depth and seen the limitations in actual studies, the nuances in the finding, and the context of the studies (rarely about middle school)

5. I want to make sure we are paying attention to accessibility. I know many people who are dyslexic and became avid readers once they could use voice-to-text and audio readers. My fear is that readying will be defined solely as decoding written text and certain people who might thrive as readers will be forced to do drills where they lean into their weakness without learning about assistive technology.

I’m no expert in early literacy but I am concerned with prescriptive approaches that treat middle school students in the same way as a second graders. I’m worried about prescriptive, singular solutions.

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Such a great place for reading and rereading The Reading Strategies Book 2.0! 📚@JSerravallo

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